The Violent and the Damned
"Run convict. Run from the sun. ... the cry is escape now or die!"
Synopsis
When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives.
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